New lab can create hurricane conditions on demand
Researchers trying to figure out what makes some hurricanes strengthen into catastrophic monsters have a new lab that allows them to generate tropical storm conditions with the flip of a switch.
May 31, 2015 at 11:52AM
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Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Plans to Obtain Sensitive Western Tech
The letter is a rare direct acknowledgment of Russia’s military involvement in Ukraine.
May 30, 2015 at 11:27PM
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Solar Impulse plane begins Pacific crossing
Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg has begun his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane.
May 30, 2015 at 05:21PM
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Has This Harvard Engineering Professor Built the Perfect Smoker?
Dr. Kit Parker’s class on barbecue used data, metrics, and Kansas City Barbecue judging rules to try and perfect brisket.
May 30, 2015 at 12:06PM
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Google’s Ingenious Plan to Make Apps Obsolete
Google showed off any number of potentially revolutionary technologies at its I/O developer conference keynote Thursday.
May 30, 2015 at 10:10AM
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Human-AI echoborgs make chatbots more real, but still fail Turing test
Having a person speak a chatbot’s answers changes people’s perceptions of the AI.
May 30, 2015 at 02:27AM
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Google and Levi’s are teaming up to make computerized pants
This morning, Google announced that it is teaming up with Levi’s to make jeans threaded with conductive fabric — which could eventually allow wearers to use their legs as touchscreens — swiping their thigh, say, to accept a phone call.
May 29, 2015 at 06:48PM
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Sundar’s Google: an exclusive look at the future of Google’s most important products
What does the man who runs Google’s most important products want?
May 29, 2015 at 03:47PM
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Exclusive: US Tried Stuxnet-Style Campaign Against North Korea But Failed
The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.
May 29, 2015 at 03:00PM
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Scientists have created robots that can adapt and recover like an animal when damaged
Once damaged, the robots will start testing out different limb combinations to figure out how to keep walking forward. Each experiment feeds the robot’s decision on how to keep moving — once it finds one that works well enough, it will carry on its merry way.
May 29, 2015 at 02:05PM
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